Trees in the Slanting Sunset

She thought she had married a good man. She never imagined that when she was framed, he would stand by and watch her get beaten to death.

When she opened her eyes again, her body battered and broken, she argued her case in court and divorced the faithless man with a letter of repudiation.

At the edge of a cliff, she asked him, heartbroken, “Are you really going to marry another woman?”

He answered anxiously, “Please, let me explain.” She smiled and leaped off the cliff. And he...